My esteemed colleague Brian Noyes blogs about performance trade-offs in application design

We're putting on an event right before Tech Ed San Diego, hosted by UCSD Extension. This Web Services Interoperability Education Day, on May 22nd, is geared at showing the community some of the .NET and Java tools that help developers implement solutions with WS-Security (now OASIS standard) and WS-Policy support. This event is an extension of the IDesign whitepaper and webinar comparing .NET/WSE and BEA Workshop 8.1 support for emerging Web services standards, and showing their interoperability.

I am really fortunate to have so many great people contributing their time to make this a success (see the site for a list of presenters, although a few are not listed yet, I guess those php sites take time to update ). The diverse backgrounds, and various perspectives of each presenter and panelist will definitely make for some very interesting post-demo discussions, and certainly should help to keep you awake during our Q&A period during the BOF.

Of course, we have prizes too...XBOX anyone? How about an iPod? T-shirt? Cap? Mug? The list is endless...

I have no excuse for taking this long, it only took about 1 hour to play with the latest release of dasBlog (1.6) and get it deployed...clearly, without adding any personal flair or artistic effort on my part. That would have had exponential impact on my timeline. And so, my first entry is simply to say "hey, I have a blog now". Finally.

Now, to find something interesting to say...